The struggle for freedom requires, first and foremost, a practical commitment.
Freedom Quotes
Presidents are over-represented here. George W. Bush has the most entries, ahead of Thomas Jefferson and John F. Kennedy, which says more about how often presidents talk about freedom than about how well they put it. The better writing tends to be elsewhere: Madison in the Federalist Papers (1787), Hannah Arendt in The Human Condition (1958), Dalí in his diary.
Two of the most repeated freedom quotes are flagged. “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it” is credited to Voltaire. Evelyn Beatrice Hall wrote it in The Friends of Voltaire (1906), as a summary of his views. “The price of freedom is eternal vigilance” is credited to Jefferson, but nobody has found it in his writings. The closest early version is by John Philpot Curran, in a speech of 1790.
Artists, the real ones, do not worry about censorship because they have the freedom to provoke.
I can be free, even beyond the struggle for freedom and what is forbidden.
The clergy, they come in,
And say it is a sin,
That we should now begin
Our freedom for to win.
that strictly(and how)scienti
fic land of supernod
where freedom is compulsory
and only man is god.
As Man steps down in amiable wisdom
To give himself what no one else can give:
His liberty.